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Re: Anonymous Poll on Employment or Lack Thereof

So you want to feel that you've done the right thing and you want the loyalty of your employers. It's greed. Greed may have a negative connotation, but everything that we do is about greed.

You cannot think of an action that you would do that does not somehow benefit you. When you donate money, it benefits you because you think to yourself that you've done the right thing. As Socrates said, no one knowingly does evil.

I forget the writer but he was from the French renaissance "People who do evil brillianty
are often admired"

Re: Anonymous Poll on Employment or Lack Thereof

So you want to feel that you've done the right thing and you want the loyalty of your employers. It's greed. Greed may have a negative connotation, but everything that we do is about greed.

You cannot think of an action that you would do that does not somehow benefit you. When you donate money, it benefits you because you think to yourself that you've done the right thing. As Socrates said, no one knowingly does evil.

You are free to spin things however you wish, Phattonez.

Sounds to me like you are a bit closer to Nietzsche than Socrates, however.

Re: Anonymous Poll on Employment or Lack Thereof

Originally Posted by Gardener

You are free to spin things however you wish, Phattonez.

Sounds to me like you are a bit closer to Nietzsche than Socrates, however.

Then you don't know much about me. I'm far from a nihilist. According to Socrates, people always do what they perceive to be good. So we are always "greedy." Take away the negative connotation of the word and it makes sense.

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully. Psalm 24"True law is right reason in agreement with nature . . . Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature [and] will suffer the worst penalties . . ." - Cicero